New and mildly improved from 2.1's first and probably best OLDC! Praised for its imaginative theme blending and cursed for its devilish badniks, Doctor Eggman's secret chemical plant somewhere in the forbidden Arctuda Circangle is filled with dastardly tricks and traps! Use the Wacky Worksurfaces to your advantage, but watch out- when they go underwater, they'll give you the shock of your life!

Yeah, so. I planned to release a 1.1 immediately after the end of the OLDC, but MascaraSnake's crushing review made me feel terrible about this map and I basically abandoned it to work on other stuff. I was recently reaffirmed how much everyone who isn't an absolute perfectionist likes this map, though, so I felt it was time to give it a bit of polish and ship it out. This isn't the end of this map- there's a lot I'm still somewhat unhappy with which I feel like I need to change- but my desire to work on this is pretty low right now, so here's the changes I've made so far.

Future changes, in order of priority:

Revamp right path after first checkpoint to introduce the bounce walls/not suck

A more interesting end to the level

General path balance tweaking, plus additional paths maybe?

Act 2??? (probably for another OLDC, though)

Boss??????

Level pack??????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

AND MANY MORE

Spoiler: Changelogs

v1.6- managing my #brands.

The devtime emblem symbol has been updated because I'm a slave to corporate America.

v1.5- the first set of tweaks.

The player no longer dies when they step on a seemingly arbitrary sector in the 2D section. This was caused by a monitor in reverse gravity being pushed upwards by THZ slime.

All outstanding SOC definitions have been converted to Lua for forward compatibility/tweaking.

v1.4- post OLDC release.

Waddaleks are now converted to Lua definition instead of SOCs for forward compatibility/tweaking.

BUG: Special stages are broken.
Fix: add in UseNiGHTSSS= 1, add in custom special stages, or copy all 7 special stages with level headers and give each one a special stage parameter sector with way too much time and no rings.

NOT A BUG: I wanna make new special stages at some point and didn't want to have to update the level to put special stage tokens in at a later point, so the broken implementation that's in currently is what you're going to have to live with until I get around to that.

Recent events in corporate America demand my #brands keep up with the times. The devtime emblem has had its iconography altered. Not a strictly necessary update to download, but I needed to do it for my own peace of mind.